Round 10 AMA Professional Motocross - Southwick MX in MA! Brett Metcalfe wins his first everall AMA MX overall! Justin Barcia wins his first ever AMA Pro MX moto on the Honda 450. Supercross Champion Ryan Villopoto retains points lead. Ryan Dungey - drama in second moto. Gareth Swanepoel wins his first ever AMA 250 moto. Tyla Rattray wins 250 MX Lites overall. Dean Wilson retains 250 MX Lites points lead. What next???
Watch the Video Highlights courtesy of MXSports.
See photos, results and points from the Southwick race here!
See Ryan Dungey's dramatic second moto photos here!
Bill Nilsson Jorgen Nilsson Graham Noyce Carl Nunn Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne Trampas Parker Travis Pastrana
Jeremy Lusk Billy MacKenzie Corrado Maddii Andre Malherbe Paul Malin Jacky Martens Christophe Martin Mickael Maschio
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This week I caught up with Kevin Windham. In the video below, Kevin Windham talks about the Superbowl Champions, the NFL's New Orleans Saints, his family, his future plans for racing and beyond.
The Superbowl XLIV champions, the New Orleans Saints, have many fans - among them is none other than the number 14 in Supercross, Kevin Windham. While the NFL season started when Supercross was in its off season, Kevin was able to take part in season tickets to his favorite NFL team - da' Saints. Eventually the 2010 Supercross season got underway in January, which meant Kevin was flying off after those Saturday night Main Events back East to watch the New Orleans Saints Playoff games.
On February 7, 2010 the New Orleans Saints headed to the Superbowl in Miami, Florida and Kevin Windham and his wife Dottie made arrangements to attend this momentous occasion. First, however Kevin had to finish up a Supercross race in San Diego the night before.
Jeff Leisk Victor Leloup Aigar Leok Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell Sten Lundin Jeremy Lusk
Brian Stonebridge David Strijbos Kevin Strijbos Bengt Aberg Greg Albertyn Jeff Alessi Mike Alessi Thomas Allier
After watching the first three supercross races of the 2011 season, I'll share with you what I see at this point.
Two riders that have really impressed me so far are Ryan Villopoto and Trey Canard. Looking at their fitness, their riding technique, their ability to get thru traffic on the race track, both are far beyond what I thought they would be.
I knew Ryan would be fast. But when a rider has been away from racing for a while, as he has, sometimes it takes a while to knock off the rust. Ryan has looked great after his heat races - obviously the training with Aldon Baker has helped him a lot. I can see his fitness, how much he is sweating, and his ability to retain his breath and breathing after both his heats and main events. It's visible that Ryan has leaned down together with Aldon, and he's in awesome condition.
I thought it would take Trey Canard at least half a season in the premiere Supercross class to where he was really comfortable. As I watch Trey in these first three races, there are certain section of the different tracks where he is faster than either Villopoto or James Stewart. Once Trey puts together the whole track, and an entire 20 laps like that - look for him to win some races this year.
Mike Alessi Thomas Allier Håkan Andersson Victor Arbekov Les Archer Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten David Bailey
Antonio Cairoli Trey Canard Håkan Carlquist Ricky Carmichael Danny Chandler Eric Cheney Alessio Chiodi Jaromir Cizek
Round 11 AMA Professional Motocross - Steel City MX in PA! Supercross Champion Ryan Villopoto swept both Motocross class motos over Ryan Dungey to extend his series points lead. And Dean Wilson swept both motos in the 250 MX LItes class to win his first AMA National Championship - Dean is the 2011 AMA 250 National Motocross Champion!. See photos, results and points from the Delmont / Steel City MX race here!
Watch the Video Highlights courtesy of MXSports.
Rick Burgett Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli Trey Canard Håkan Carlquist Ricky Carmichael Danny Chandler
Where supercross started - the fabled Los Angeles Coliseum in 1972. This video is from 1985 at the L. A. Coliseum Supercross.
This video is part 1 of 2. I wanted to get it up for you as quickly as possible. In this video, for better or worse, you'll see a lot of me (I'm number 5 on a Yamaha). But in the second video that's coming, you'll see a lot more of my friends in the race like David Bailey, Bob Hannah, Jeff Ward, Goat Breker, Broc Glover, Ron Lechien, Johnny O'Mara, and others.
I think in 1985, we ran two 'main events' at each supercross. Part of what you see here (if my memory is correct) is me winning the first 'main event'.
And stay tuned for the second video! Both videos have the fabled Peristyle uphill / downhill. And especially in the second video coming late next week, with guys like Jeff Ward, David Bailey, Bob Hannah, Broc Glover, Ron Lechien, Johnny O'Mara and myself - you'll see riders with about 33 AMA Supercross and Motocross titles combined!
Hope you enjoy the videos ...
Roger De Coster Ken De Dycker Yves Demaria Gilbert De Roover Clement Desalle John DeSoto Tony DiStefano Jamie Dobb